A €336K bike shelter ?

So here in Ireland in the grounds of our Government Building (Leinster House), a new bike shelter was built for 18 bikes.  It only cost a mere €336K (I kid you not).

An engineering firm posted on social media that they could have done similar for < €20K – see newspaper article here.

What other complete waste of tax payers money have you seen or is that too big a list?

PS This is my second attempt to post as I haven’t found my first one from earlier.

Both shelters are bit shit to be honest. Only useful if the rain is falling straight down.

Additional invoices and/or budget manipulations due to costs escalating somewhere else?

Here in Harrogate I can offer up the White Elephant of the unrideable and nonsensical Otley Road cycle path – over £2m spent so far and another £2m+ to complete it – currently it stops before it gets to the top of the bloody hill (the hill that featured in the Worlds when they were based in Harrogate).

Then we have the Station Cycle Gateway – over £1m spent on consultants already for a £12m cycle scheme that no-one wants and early submissions looks positively dangerous for cyclists (Dutch roundabouts IIRC).

Wait till you find out what roads and other infrastructure cost!

https://yourvoicebucks.citizenspace.com/planning/buckinghamshire-lcwip-consultatio

I fear this is going to be a costly exercise, when what would really help would be to maintain what they already have.

So much wasted money.

Anything procured by the MOD.

Anything Outsourced

Any government tendered IT project.
the epitome of which was:

NHS Connecting for Health.

Lett be honest,, if you’re working on a listed building etc the actual bike shelter/rack is probably the cheapest part, but the quoted contractors will have ignored that for a headline